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Hollywood in Wartime: Mark Harris
Mark Harris, like all native New Yorkers, talks real estate with zest and rue. He points out the picture window of his 26th-floor apartment on Manhattan’s West Side, the view about to be ruined by construction across the street.
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Breaking Boundaries: Isabel Allende
After selling 60 million copies of her books, earning 14 honorary degrees, and racking up more than 50 awards, Isabel Allende is trying something new: a blood and guts thriller.
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Oregon’s Past: Phillip Margolin
Set in 1860s Oregon, Margolin's new novel centers on a freed slave whose daughter is being kept illegally as a slave by a shady, cruel lawyer.
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A Debut Novel’s Long Road to Publication: Mary Miller
The path to publishing a first novel is a winding one for many authors.
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Fiction into Fact: Gary Shteyngart
“I can’t stand Russian food,” Gary Shteyngart tells me, wincing politely at my restaurant list.
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The Leaping Mind: Lorrie Moore
As Lorrie Moore prepares for the publication of her seventh book, the author reflects on her influences, motivations, and publishing in "Seventeen" magazine.
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East Side, West Side, All Around the Town: Brandon Stanton
On the streets of New York City with Brandon Stanton, the photographer-blogger phenom behind "The Humans of New York."
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“Wonderfully Strange” World of Richard Powers
In his new novel, Orfeo (Norton, Jan.), Richard Powers tells the story of Peter Els, whose curiosity, combined with his hobbies, upends his life and sends him on the run from authorities in the wake of 9/11.
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PW’s Top 10 Authors Pick Their Favorite Books of 2013
We asked each of the authors of Publishers Weekly’s top 10 books of 2013 to share the title that he or she found most captivating this year.
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It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World: Roddy Doyle
Twenty-five years ago, Roddy Doyle, then a schoolteacher, published The Commitments, a novel about an imaginary band from his working-class neighborhood in Dublin.
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Doris Lessing: A PW Profile
A vintage profile of Doris Lessing from 1969, upon her first visit to America as "The Four-Gated City" was being published.
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Exploring the Dark Places: Lisa Unger
Lisa Unger, 43, has always been drawn to places that seem idyllic yet seethe with hidden treachery.
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By the Book: Gabrielle Zevin
Gabrielle Zevin’s fictional indie bookseller A.J. Fikry is so authentic, his New England bookstore, Island Books, so perfectly realized, that undoubtedly members of the bookselling and publishing communities will recognize themselves—or their colleagues—in The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry.
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Persistence over Resistance: Donal Ryan
The story of Donal Ryan’s struggle to find a publisher for The Spinning Heart has been so often told that Ryan now worries it will overshadow the book itself.
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An Author Ponders Success Abroad, Struggles In the U.S.
David Vann might be one of the most accomplished American authors you’ve never heard of.
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Here’s Adriana! Adriana Trigiani
Does Adriana Trigiani have it all?
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Indie Comics to Birth Control: Peter Bagge
Peter Bagge, the Seattle-based alternative comics legend who rose to prominence with his ’90s series Hate, is turning his deranged but incisive sense of humor away from Gen-X slackers, toward an unexpected subject: reproductive-rights pioneer Margaret Sanger.
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Deborah Solomon takes on Norman Rockwell
Solomon, who for eight years wrote the New York Times Magazine’s “Questions For” column, has been hard at work on American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell.
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DeMille’s Newest Quest a Success
In 1975, when Nelson DeMille was in his early 30s, he published his first full-length novel, The Quest, with Manor Books. The book hinges on one of history’s most enduring secrets: the location of Christ’s cup from the Last Supper, the Holy Grail.
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Not Your Grandmother’s Fairy Tales: Bill Willingham
Just as Rapunzel spun straw into gold, Bill Willingham spins childhood stories into adult drama filled with action, romance, and intrigue.
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